Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?

If you're engaged in billable time practices, responding to e-mails is little different than phone calls, faxes or letters. It's all about the time you spend engaged on the work for the client.

Re: Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?

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Post by ivanpashenko » Wed, Feb 25, 2015, 5:32 PM UTC

mariuolo wrote: post #6

Instead of?

instead of not charging (like it is now).

Re: Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?

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Post by ivanpashenko » Wed, Feb 25, 2015, 5:33 PM UTC

wkearney99 wrote: post #7

Perhaps you could also as "Why is it bad to ask poorly formed questions?" If you're engaged in billable time practices, responding to e-mails is little different than phone calls, faxes or letters. It's all about the time you spend engaged on the work for the client.

My bad. Is the question not clear enough?

Re: Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?

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Post by notahacker » Wed, Feb 25, 2015, 5:35 PM UTC

ivanpashenko wrote: post #4

gt565k wrote: post #2

I think the question you want to ask is, would you pay to contact people via email? The answer is most likely no.

It is actually the opposite. I want to know why people don’t feel comfortable charging to contact them via email.

I have no objection, in principle, to people paying to contact me by email. But there are quite a few people, organisations and mission critical bots I might like to receive email from that are unlikely to pay to send it, and whitelisting every email or domain that's allowed to contact me is more of an irritation than deleting unfiltered spam. I don't object to strangers paying but I am quite concerned at missing out on useful emails through erecting the most blunt spam filter imaginable.

I think that goes for most people.

It makes a little more sense to charge for a guaranteed response as LinkedIn does indirectly...